Marlesreuth Tower Hill
Marlesreuth Tower Hill | ||
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Creation time : | Medieval | |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall, tower hill | |
Place: | Naila - Marlesreuth | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 17 '56.8 " N , 11 ° 41' 34.1" E | |
Height: | 640 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Tower Hill Marlesreuth is an Outbound medieval motte (moth) at 640 m above sea level. NHN directly east of the parish church Marlesreuth in the northwest part of Marlesreuth , a current district of Naila in the district of Hof in Bavaria .
The owners of the castle are the gentlemen von Grün and von Wildenstein and around 1560 Moritz von Wildenstein, who built a new building as the "Upper Castle". The facility was demolished at the end of the 18th century.
The tower hill with a diameter of about 16 meters is still preserved from the former castle complex.
literature
- Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
- Tilmann Breuer : District of Münchberg, Bavarian Art Monuments 17 . German art publisher, 1963.
- Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, pp. 129–130.
Web links
- Entry on Marlesreuth in the private database "Alle Burgen".